F# Weekly #44, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse
• Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1
• The differences between Logary and Serilog
• F# Advent Calendar 2016 has been announced

Videos/Presentations

• Rethinking State Management by Tamizhvendan S
• Podcast on F* – Functional Geekery Episode 71 – Nikhil Swamy
• Blow Your Mind with Functional Programming Demos by Conference Attendees at Functional Conference’16 – ConfEngine
• Functional Conf 2016

Blogs

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2016 – Sergey Tihon
• Paket ‘why’ command -Tomasz Heimowski
• F# Domain Modelling – Luke Merrett
• BIS Statistics F# Type Provider [alpha version] – Darko Micic
• When variable names are in the way -Mark Seemann
• Yahtzee Scoring Kata in F# – Mark Heath
• Bowling Kata in Clojure, F# and Scala – Sandro Mancuso
• TDD Kata in F#/C# using FsCheck -Michał Niegrzybowski
• F# SQLProvider+SQLite on the Raspberry Pi – John Reynolds
• Simplifying MBrace Deployment -Anthony Brown
• Build your own Line chart for Xamarin.Forms with Custom renderers (Part 1) – Kimserey Lam

F# vNext

• The F# Language Suggestions have been moved to GitHub. Please discuss and vote on issues (use thumbs-up reactions)
• New section on MS’s F# Azure docs: Using Apache Spark with F# with Azure HDInsight
• Sprint 108 Summary
• F# RFC:
  • FS-1026 – Allow “params” dictionary as method argument
• New ideas:
  • Allow aliases in interface implementation

Open source projects

• fedirector – Simple web redirector with F# and Suave
• langidmappings – Utilities for mapping Windows LANGID values to other formats
• thegamma-script – Compiler & tooling for the language behind The Gamma visualizations, including Monaco integration and code-based editors. Everything in this repository compiles to JavaScript using Fable
• fable-webgl – Fable Elmish demo that controls WebGL and React views
• hadoopfs – A lightweight F# implementation of the Hadoop Streaming API
• fable-react – Fable bindings and helpers for React and React Native

New Releases

• Paket 3.24 has been released with bootstrapper magic mode
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.Visitors 0.6.7
• Expandable F# compiler (Core library) 0.6.7
• ComVu 0.1.0
• Suave v2.0.0-alpha7

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #43